I have a refurb but basically new (but not under warranty) Aspire E1-521 that was working perfectly when I tested it (in fact the OS was still waiting to be set up) and then when I tried to start it up one day to complete the Win 8 setup I got no POST. I tried several restarts and one of the following happened each time:
1. No LCD at all
2. LCD came on but just a black screen
3. LCD came on, Acer logo flashed for half a second, then received "No Boot Device, Hit Any Key" message. Hitting a key does nothing.
This looks like a BIOS issue to me, so I attempted to follow the instructions for a Crisis disk in the Acer service manual. I copied the latest BIOS file onto a USB flash drive (formatted FAT 32), and then did the FN-ESC button thing while plugging in my power cord and hitting the power button. I renamed the file to BIOS.FD per the instructions. I'm not sure if that was supposed to be xxxxx.FD, it simply said "BIOS.FD". In any event, it doesnt seem to work. The screen came on once, appeared to do something and then hang, the other times I tried the screen didnt even come on and while the fan was going hard it didnt seem to do anything.
Any assistance here would be appreciated.
